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On this day in history

On Nov. 26, 1789, President George Washington asked Americans to observe a day of thanksgiving for the adoption of the Constitution.

In 1922 "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles Schulz was born in Minneapolis.

In 1940 Warsaw's 500,000 Jews were ordered by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto.

In 1973 President Richard Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she had accidentally caused part of the 18 1/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.

In 1988 the United States denied an entry visa to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, who sought to travel to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.

In 2000 Florida's Republican secretary of state certified George W. Bush as the winner over Al Gore in the state's presidential balloting by 537 votes; the state's 25 electoral votes enabled him to win the presidency.

In 2008 gunmen stormed luxury hotels, hospitals and other sites in Mumbai, India, beginning a three-day siege of the capital that would claim the lives of 166 people before the attackers were killed or captured by Indian commandos.